diff --git a/cookbooks/aws-parallelcluster-slurm/test/controls/slurm_config_spec.rb b/cookbooks/aws-parallelcluster-slurm/test/controls/slurm_config_spec.rb
index fef4b2f60d..9631512774 100644
--- a/cookbooks/aws-parallelcluster-slurm/test/controls/slurm_config_spec.rb
+++ b/cookbooks/aws-parallelcluster-slurm/test/controls/slurm_config_spec.rb
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@
   end
 
   describe 'check cgroup memory resource controller is enabled' do
-    subject { bash("grep memory /proc/cgroups | awk '{print $4}'") }
+    subject { bash("sleep 5 && grep memory /proc/cgroups | awk '{print $4}'") }
     its('exit_status') { should eq 0 }
     its('stdout.strip') { should cmp 1 }
   end